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(No Model.)

B. S. HEMMENWAY.

. BRAGKET. No. 364,514. Patented June 7, 18-87.

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EUGENE S. HEMMENWAY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,514,:latec'i June 7, 1887.

Application tiled May 26, 1886. Serial No. 203,313. (No mcdel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE S. HEMMEN- WAY, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap, simple, convenient, and durable bracket for supporting the ends of windowcurtain or window-shade rolls and spring-curtain fixtures, as heretofore constructed of cast-iron and secured in position upon the window-easings by means of screws; and it consistsin the construction, combination, andarrangement of the several features of the bracket, so that the same may be formed from sheet metal by means of suitable dies to cut the brackets'eontiguous to each other without waste of material, and other details of construction hereinafter more fully descri bed, and specifically set forth in the claims.

Figure 1 represents a plan showing a strip of sheet metal having brackets formed according to my invention cut contiguous therefrom.

tive views of sheetunetalbrackets constructed according to my invention as finished, ready for use.

A represents a strip or piece of sheet metal from which the brackets B are cut on the curved and straight lines shown in Figs. 1, 2, and ,3, wherein it will be seen that the brackets B are of such form as to be cut out by dies with but very little waste of stock or materiahthe curved edge of one fitting the curved edge of the con tiguous one when reversed or turned end for end, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the outward ends of each bracket being provided-with a suitably-formed slot, 0, or round opening or hole D, to receive the opposite ends'of the curtain orshade roller or journals thereof, as heretofore, or as may be desired to accomplish the object. These brackets B are provided with a penetrating portion, E, adapted to be driven into the windowcasing to support and retain the bracket in position, as heretofore employed for the purpose, and with one or more short points, F, to enter the casing or window-janib slightly, so as to retain the bracket in a vertical position.

, Now, in order to prevent the bracket so formed and secured in position without the aid of screws or other means of fastening being bent horizontally, I provide one or more side stay portions or projections, H, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, which project from the side or at right angles to the main body portion B and penetrating part E, and intervening between said portion E and the short points F, shown, the dotted lines shown representing the point of bending in several of the figures. The slot 0 may be formed by bending the portion forming the slot at a right angle to the plane of the body portion, as shown by the letter L in Fig. 6. I also contemplate forming the said penetrating portion E by bending or doubling the same longitudinally, as shown in Fig. 5, so as to render such portion more rigid, as well as a portion of the main body, as shown in the same view. In order to facilitate the removal or withdrawal of the penetrating'portion or portions, I provide a point or projection, K, as shown in Fig. 4, whereby a suitable instrument may be applied thereto, so as to readily withdraw the holding portion E from the wood into which it has been driven.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A window-curtain bracket provided with a slot or opening in the outward end portion thereof, and having the penetrating portion E and short points F and the right-angle projection L and stay H, formed of sheet metal, substantially as described.

2. The bracket B,'provided with a slot or opening in the outward end portion and having the attaching portion E, points F, projecting stays H, and projection K, as described, and for the purposes set forth.

3. A window-curtain bracket having a slot or opening in the outward end portion and having the attaching portion E, formed of two thicknesses of sheet metal by doubling the same horizontally, as shown and described.

EUGENE S. HEMMENVVAY.

\Vitnesses:

SYLVENUS WALKER, WILLIAM H. PARRY. 

